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West1977

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Hello all,

I've created a model of a box truss with a conveyor on top of it and I'm fearing that I've made a few horrible newbie mistakes.  First off just to get it out there, our firm will be detaiing the steel in SDS/2 (steel detailing dept) and they need nothing from me so this is just for visual only on my end of the project.  Basically the conveyor comes from outside carry pesticide pellets and dumps the pellets inside the building in the correct bay.  I figured since I had a bit of free time I was going to attempt to model the conveyor / support just to give the client the visual of what the finished product would look like.  That being said.....here are my problems (believe me I realize I probably didn't model this like you more experienced users would but I'm learning so).....

I took an out of the box truss from revit and revised the truss to suit my needs.  This supplied the two "sides" of the box truss if you will.  I then just sketched 3x3 angles (placed as beams) on the top and bottom chords of the truss to create my box truss.  I then found a conveyor from revit city and manipulated it here and there to achieve what I wanted as far as looks go.  All is well and fine up to this point UNTIL.... Since the entire conveyor was on an angle I made the newbie mistake of thinking that I would just draw it flat and then rotate it into place in elevation view.  Little did I know that all sorts of errors would come up about about rotating beams, pinned elements not being included to be able to rotate, yada yada yada won't bore you with all of the errors.  My question is, is there a way to make this a "block" of some sort so I can just rotate the entire thing and insert it in my project?  I feel as though I've made a big noob mistake by not just modeling it at the angle.  Any advice by chance?  If not I guess on the bright side I can go back and remodel the entire thing on the angle much quicker now that I'm more familiar with the process.  Any advice on how to do this would be great. Thanks.

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teafoe5

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Place it in your project and then rotate it, don't do it in your family and see what happens

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Thanks for the reply.  I think that's screw up #2.  I created they conveyor and whole assembly as a project not a family (I was thinking I could just insert it like a block per se into my project). I've got families in the drawing such as the conveyor belt itself and the rollers but I'm assuming I should have drawn the whole conveyor trusses and all as a family? Really screwed this one up huh?  Is there anyway to save the RVT as a RFA?  I go into the drawing and try to save as a family but that option is gray'd out.  Think I've really butchered this one.  Oh well, live n learn.  :-)  Only one way to learn, make mistakes trying.  and I thought I was doing good ....LOL

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You are correct you cannot save a project as a family.  Tough lesson but like you said live and learn

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